RPMFAB is the next round of thieves?

Agent_Outside

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Did you hear the news? They were just posting advertisements for an overland expo sale on social media and then a couple days later started emailing customers saying they were going out of business and their orders won’t be fulfilled, there was no mention of refunds but they require 100% payment up front.
 
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That'll free up some space in my armor thread sticky. I don't know if I would call them thieves yet, I'd wait to see if they do the refunds.
 
I don't know if I would call them thieves yet, I'd wait to see if they do the refunds.

Considering the initial round of emails announcing it stated "If you had an order placed with RPMFAB, you are receiving this because we will not be able to fulfill your order"

No mention of refund, channels through which to contact them, etc. If a company had enough money laying around to process refunds, they wouldn't have filed for bankruptcy the first place, they would have just decided to close up shop after fulfilling existing orders. They took on orders at Overland West (and there's no way in hell they didn't know two weeks ago that they were going to file for bankruptcy).

Screams of a company searching for last-minute cash with no product delivered.
 
That'll free up some space in my armor thread sticky. I don't know if I would call them thieves yet, I'd wait to see if they do the refunds.

It's at least lower case thievery currently. As others said, if they new that they were not able to complete orders why take them? It's obvious they have cash flow issues. This appears to be the same tactic Popeye's Wimpy uses.
 
This is crazy. Glad i got my rack when i did. But they have been all over Instagram lately peddling their Jeep parts. I assumed they were doing great
 
The guy at their booth at Expo was just showing me their "new" v2 rear bumper, I guess that isnt coming around any time soon. Hopefully they do the right thing and get people their money back.
 
I am a member on the Arizona 4Runners page on FB where I heard all about this.
I wish I had known beforehand before purchasing. The ridiculous 6+ month wait time and then the shipping in itself took almost a month. I had to literally bug them for order updates. And when the bumper finally did show up, it arrived scraped up which leads me to believe the powder coating job was not as good. I believe they send the bumpers out to someone else to powder coat They said they'd make things right, and pay to have a local guy do it, but never followed up and would only pay a tiny amount to fix it, when we all know damn well that a quality powder coat job is more than $114. Keep in mind I am living in NY at the time, so i couldn't just go up there and check on it.
The bumper itself seems built well, but I am not too sure I want something on my truck that was built by this company anymore, so if something better comes around in the future, I will probably sell this one and get something else.

Forgot to add that the shipping company that took the bid to ship the bumper was the worst shipping company in the existence of shipping companies.

Weren't they trying to sell their built rock crawling Jeep for some insane amount like 42k awhile back? I wondered if that was because they knew things were going downhill?

All in all it sucks. Glad there are still fabrication companies left out there though, I may look into something different in the next few years if I keep this rig.
 
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Weren't they trying to sell their built rock crawling Jeep for some insane amount like 42k awhile back? I wondered if that was because they knew things were going downhill?


I have heard through the grapevine the rumors as early as fall of last year, that things were not going well, and they might go under.
 
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From e-mails they sent out seems like they don't have capital for refunds. Hopefully they will honor refunds because we hate to see so many people loose their hard worked money.
 

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They sold the Jeep to some poor bastard in Houston. F$&king crooks! I think I will be removing my rpm roof rack for another reputable shop. I’m ashamed to be an owner of one of their products.
 
Admin for the Facebook group just closed a conversation I had started about RPM and Don. Wondering if there is some bias based in that decision.

I was off facebook for ages because of drama. Back for 5 mins and....

Called out in another post and they turned it back on.
 
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